--- title: Chickens scratch and peck for seeds, worms and insects; they are omn… — Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs · tree and pragmatics description: Chickens scratch and peck for seeds, worms and insects; they are omnivores and will even eat mice and small frogs. Who acts: Chickens, hens. A sentence of the lesson «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Chickens: eggs, pecking order and livi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/) / 7 # Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 7 Chickens scratch and peck for seeds, worms and insects; they are omnivores and will even eat mice and small frogs. **Who acts:** Chickens, hens · **What happens:** scratch, peck, be, eat · **To what, where:** omnivores, mice This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chickens, hens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs.lesson:7 # text = Chickens scratch and peck for seeds, worms and insects; they are omnivores and will even eat mice and small frogs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 scratch scratch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 peck peck VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 omnivores omnivore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 even even ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 19 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scratch** | present | Chickens | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **peck** | present | Chickens *not said here* | | | | | for seeds and worms and insects | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | hens *= hen* | omnivores | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **eat** | future | hens *= hen* *not said here* | mice and small frogs | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs.lesson:7`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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